From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jay Kamat Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs on Ubuntu advice Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 10:04:55 -0400 Message-ID: <87shejur20.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1508162741 26958 195.159.176.226 (16 Oct 2017 14:05:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:05:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cc: Emacs developers To: Fabrice Popineau Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 16 16:05:34 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e4616-00041s-Av for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 16:05:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33187 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e461C-0004rf-6z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 10:05:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41546) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e4610-0004oY-20 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 10:05:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e460q-00075q-59 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 10:05:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qt0-x22c.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::22c]:47445) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e460q-00074u-20 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 10:05:00 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-qt0-x22c.google.com with SMTP id z50so31819914qtj.4 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 07:04:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version; bh=w06GO1WUJ4t0GSkBNHz6fjdTRHur6xhCrblybr17Y8Q=; b=rXfh4LM74Yt310m0DHFPONie+9qBx42F4CN/hlj7cUYFqAM+r+hz+UDYVw96L9NvDl +LRDzZywB2AvLDo+5GP6VHTzfT+L4aRzIL+mnU/4mYE/1/3ypQLhvNzgKdfx5JJMs03n 8e3qrEcHmo7vMYpLYgE8/lPF9vzXl503EePLJs1kJLqoZx1cc8MKr1N//PDCHXR1g1u4 ydXWL6aEck+gbY9IHxBFNohidZ8PzUNsHmbYKPoVfEQgrTMTGbdu9W0QGet4BTZ8bKhg c8e4S1ITxqd4ykOJb/YGQ6hcA8/Ovqum5LuXp+VZkahWzrO4zk6tVjWgi54FoxV7I9HU mk8w== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to :message-id:user-agent:mime-version; bh=w06GO1WUJ4t0GSkBNHz6fjdTRHur6xhCrblybr17Y8Q=; b=oHBITFl0ZxMPr0YnQ9KSKEgknm5q5esRdR3H5FIQdMu/5MItt23ucq7WZMTmDMye7n 4uV5ILgPRezaNkBNEHM/13TvvINCUOXFIjWNBV8aEwAdYOxCBMytvRnrmcBRxG8aAq2Y EHKNet7nkdvsyTUKXaVVWgaRnINDyjm20UJmwWhG0ZXRkkftukAdJLP4cRnnMweL/KQ6 Gh3jha6AnmrEDcIOKXCWPCXC8w628aGl150CX3NQqC7gtDAEW7Odk8pFAtHJUCeu8Pko AKnFxeU4OMmFpuDB6yvBxQE+GZd5GvswodE7rKuK/ImqjXYxeKh9qpCccjTbyweXccRR d0Ww== X-Gm-Message-State: AMCzsaUReEwMlZu4VzsIAHZPIc2EFmZwmyDFjjh5ermximN1Dw6mbjmR dnsm6T/0urLrL+2zTrc61hBBdogK X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABhQp+S8zsvQKvHvS707yoi7fHmIv/BcdAvzy9ZJsUPfWYfFTMPAG3Q32AiZHee42ZGp5ivTSKldfA== X-Received: by 10.37.115.5 with SMTP id o5mr439090ybc.341.1508162697342; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 07:04:57 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from laythe (res404s-128-61-104-57.res.gatech.edu. [128.61.104.57]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c188sm3375930ywd.95.2017.10.16.07.04.56 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Mon, 16 Oct 2017 07:04:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Fabrice Popineau's message of "Sun, 15 Oct 2017 21:09:02 +0200") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::22c X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:219576 Archived-At: Hi Fabrice, > Back to my original question, I have spent quite a time looking for settings to > get the same crisp rendering of the Consolas font with Emacs-w64 and the one running from WSL > and failed to up to now. I remember this distinctly from a while ago (but I can't test it now, because I don't have a windows box anymore). My 2c is that: 1. GUI Applications aren't supported at all with WSL. Are you sure whatever 3rd party X server you are running isn't the problem? (The one I found seemed very questionable). 2. When I tried it a while back, I had this problem with all applications (terrible, blurry font rendering), not just Emacs. I ended up moving back to a native windows Emacs installation (and occasionally a cygwin one) for the times I'm stuck on windows for some reason. I find the cygwin works much better than WSL, but I guess that's personal preference. I think you may be able to access files in WSL from the native windows port of emacs (and it has better integration to the rest of the system too, such as putty). Please let me know if you're able to figure this out (I'm interested), and good luck. -Jay